Gordana Marković Explained

Gordana Marković
Country:Yugoslavia → Serbia
Birth Date:4 January 1951
Birth Place:Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Woman International Master (1979)
Rating:2257 [inactive]
Peakrating:2335 (July 1987)
Peakranking:No. 20 woman (January 1977)
Fideid:905992

Gordana Marković (née Jovanović; born 4 January 1951), also known as Gordana Marković-Jovanović, (Serbian: Гордана Марковић-Јовановић) is a Serbian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1979). She is a two-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1977, 1981) and won a team bronze medal with the Yugoslav women's team at the 1988 Chess Olympiad.

Biography

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, she was one of the leading Yugoslav women's chess players. Gordana Marković twice won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship, in 1977 and 1981.

Gordana Marković participated in three Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:

Gordana Marković played for Yugoslavia in six Women's Chess Olympiads (including "B" team in 1990):[4]

In 1979, Gordana Marković was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. Since 2000, she rarely participates in chess tournaments.[5] Her sister Katarina Blagojević was a chess Woman International master.

Her highest ranking on the FIDE women's rating list was No. 20 in January 1977,[6] while her highest Elo rating was 2335 in July 1987.[7] [8]

She won team bronze medals with ŠK BAS Belgrade in European Women's Chess Club Cup in 1998 and 2000, both times playing on board 4. She was registered as a reserve when the team won the tournament in 2002, but didn't play in any match.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1979 Alicante Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women). www.mark-weeks.com.
  2. Web site: 1987 Smederevska Palanka Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women). www.mark-weeks.com.
  3. Web site: 1991 Subotica Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women). www.mark-weeks.com.
  4. Web site: OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Gordana Marković-Jovanović. Wojciech. Bartelski. www.olimpbase.org.
  5. Web site: Ergebnis von Eloabfrage 14037. steffen. www.benoni.de. 2018-02-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120056/http://www.benoni.de/schach/elo/his_e.html?id=905992. 2016-03-04. dead.
  6. Web site: OlimpBase :: FIDE Rating List January 1977. www.olimpbase.org.
  7. Web site: OlimpBase :: FIDE rating history :: Markovic, Gordana. www.olimpbase.org.
  8. Web site: OlimpBase :: FIDE rating history :: Markovic-Jovanovic, Gordana. www.olimpbase.org.
  9. Web site: OlimpBase :: All-Time Player History :: Marković, Gordana. Wojciech. Bartelski. www.olimpbase.org.